Kong: Skull Island succeeded where others failed because it respected the lore while burning the formula. It gave us a Kong who doesn't need to fall in love to be interesting. It gave us monsters (the Skullcrawlers, the Spider-things, the giant water buffalo) that felt like they evolved, not just spawned.
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